New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-13
NETLo0K FOE THE COLLEGE YEAR.
nR1oHr PROSPECTS AT THE UNIVERSITY


IN. MAC cRAokEN TELLS OF THE CHANGES IN TIE
FACULTY AND OF THE NEW COURSES.
fter two months of rest from books and studies both
professors and suients IN the different educational In
situations throughout the city begin to look forward to
new year Of work. One Of the earliest of the institutions
TO get into the the University OF the City OF
NcwYork On the first day Of September Vice Chancel-
Tor Henry MaoCracken into the city from scenes
of rural fe and Chancellor Hall is still in Europe the
whole weight Of responsibility falls on Dr. MacCracken'
who busy preparing for the collegiate year. look
ing into the details of the work OF each department and
planning the best advancement of learning IN the UNI
versity
When seen by TRIBUNE reporter last week III. mac
Cracker seated at his study-tabie surrounu w
formidable array of papers and pamphlets pat ne
fully consented to talk Of his vacation auu VI ' f
poets OF the University
have enjoyed myself greatly" said he mace my
head,uarters at stockbridgc, VT, this summer wnere
books and study have employed my ume W au'"'
drove a spirited that have recently purchaseu
from srockbrdge Saratoga Springs and thence 10 te
white Noun aims At the Profile House met PRESIDENT
Nocosb and number of other college professors ana on
nv return represented my Phi Beta Kappa society AZ
dartmouth College, My family are still at stockbridgc
hut shall not return this year. My duties mere arc
many and combining.
"Yes there will be many changes and additions both
IN professors and buildings have lust visited the
Medical Departmep and find that its faculty have eX-
pended 81 AZ 900 during the summer$42 900 has been
spent on refurnshng the central building and the dis
pensary while 100000 has been spent on the new
laboratory. Among the additions are the new lecture
room upon the floor, nted mp with 400 opera chalrs
while the platform connected by sliding doors with the
laboratory that the professor can stand In the aooa
tory and make his preparations and then by sliding TIE
doors confront his 400 students Above this room Is al
amplheare of equal dimensions There are eight sec
ton rooms for the meeting OF the professors Win
students The dispensary wing Is fitted out with large
receptou room for patients and large numDer of small
retiring rooms where the patients can be examined III
private over 10000 patients were treated in the dis
pensary last year The departing ntw be enlarged by
addition of professor in the chair OF fhys-
ioogy Professor W. Gilman Thompson, son OF the Kew
Dr. Joseph Thompson formerly OF the Broadway Taber-
nacle will be confirmed in this chair by the council on
October 1.
The recent death Of Aaron ]. yanderpoel leaves the
presidency Of the faculty Of the Law Department vacant
When the council meets October president VIII De
elected to I'LL the vacancy President Charles Butter VIII
issue request to the council and the members OF the
three faculties attend the funeral services when they
are announced This department will also have new
professor for the Law of Real Estate In Myer ..
Isaacs The session will open September 20.
The undergraduate department VIII open on septeu
her o. committee of the faculty with Professor
chairman arranging for course OF free iec
lures to be given Saturday mornings by the different
professors, open 10 puolic "A~
literary subjects The entrance examinations Will De
continued on September 81 and the gain in each class
so far as we Judge indicates an increase OF 10 per
cent on last years enrolment In the graduate depart
ment percentage is larger The growth OF the
college classes and the coming OF younger professors
Professors Houghton Herring, Isaacs and Messenger,
who have taken chairs within two years ana are none
them past the thrtieshas led to entirely new code OF
rules undergraduates Since the faculty now contains
representatives OF johns Hopkins Yale Harvard and
Cornell and several smaller colleges these rules are sup
ing study and preventing misdemeaLors They were dis
tribued TO faculty and students few days ago Accord
senior junior may be absent from eight class e1
ercises other than examinations, and sophomore or
freshman from six class other than e1amn;-
without mourning marks or losing grade I'D scholar
ship This allowance Is made III order 10 cover a sucn
friends engagen ents for business or sports For ms
aenean9Is' absences ana sat 10 ba ei1onsness of
the offences. Forty-cght marks Will suspend soPn-
Of penalties for deficiency in scholarships also
After the reporter had looked at the rules DR.
MacCracken continued: There will be number OF adj
diona in the department of graduate instruo
Religion by Dr. Frank F. Elllnwood; Modern Greek
BY Dr. Henry NJ Bard and The h anS TI A S
e In to a seoS og e en- ss
Council sought the services of some acknowledged
master of this field. The consent OF many named Dr.
Missions has long imposed upon him close study of this
subject HIS travels have enhanced the value Of his
studies HIS official duties fortunately do not forbid
HIN giving lectures in the university and direction TO
Graduate Circle, but rather admit this task auxil
iary his fework. The will be begun by lee
ture to which the public will be invited and particularly
those students in philosophy and theology 1t will prob
ably be on October 4.
Dr Bards protracted residence years since in Athens
and his familiar knowledge OF the land and the language
being well known to several graduate students OF last
year. have led a for "a in modern Greek
which DR.. Baird cheerfully undertakes. Dr. Woods
collection of engravings, numbering many thousands
gathered during residence of fifteen years in Germany
France. Italy Greece and Spain, is deposited in the
University Building and will be used TO illustrate this
The perm of the offer of this course by
the University is not secured because OF the neces
sariy large that attend its establishment
For the year lSS7Ss the is open TO graduate
students upon the conditions attached to the graduate
in general course In Romance PhilOlogy is
under consideration and will be determined upon
The Department OF Graduate Instruction will open